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\"'Paul's<\/a>
'Paul's Scarlet' English hawthorn in front of 3438 McTavish Street, McGill University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday tree walk: Trees of Mount Royal Cemetery<\/a>, no charge, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., to reserve: 514-279-7358 or aws@mountroyalcem.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Mount Royal Cemetery is a treasure trove of trees. From its beginnings in 1852 as Canada\u2019s first \u2018rural\u2019 cemetery \u2013 along the lines of Europe\u2019s first \u2018rural\u2019 cemetery, P\u00e8re Lachaise (1804) and Mount Auburn Cemetery (1831) in Cambridge, Mass.) — the trees have been integrated into the burial areas. This is what gives the cemetery the feeling of being a park, and, in many parts, are fairly natural one, at that.<\/p>\n

Most cemeteries opt to keep trees away from tombstones for the simple reason that the long-rooted ones complicate the task of digging. But, as Myriam Cloutier told me this week: \u201cThat\u2019s the price we are willing to pay to have this magnificent setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloutier is communications coordinator for the cemetery and one of the people who organizes public programming. She leads a historical walk every year. This year, the theme is catastrophic events. Having worked at the Mount Royal Cemetery since 1995, Cloutier knows the locations of many of the prominent, both the buried dead and the living trees. She steered me to the areas with the greatest concentration of interesting trees as I was plotted my course for the two tree walks I am giving (this Sunday, in English, next Sunday, in French).
\n\"cemetery-gates\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Entrance from Chemin de la for\u00eat, the continuation of Mount Royal Blvd.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I was anxious to see the hawthorns. Aside from the horsechestnuts (see below) and lilacs, they\u2019re the only trees in bright bloom. The hawthorn flowers you see in this photo, like the ones I will show at the cemetery, are no simple five-petaled flowers as they are in their wild state. This is a double, or triple, layered flower, that looks like a miniature peony. Known as \u2018Paul\u2019s Scarlet\u2019, this cultivar of the English hawthorn produces a velvety button of a flower.<\/p>\n

\"horsechestnut-and-dog-sm\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not many thorns on this cultivar unlike the wild species that you find growing in abandoned farmers\u2019 fields or on the forest edge. My first experience of hawthorn was a number of years ago at the Botanical Gardens. I was walking with my family through an area of the arboretum was perplexed by the danger tape wrapped around some of the trees. Had they been sprayed with something toxic? I wondered. Approaching one of them, I soon had my answer: inch-long thorns covered the branches and trunk of this pretty little tree.<\/p>\n

Because of its nature as ferocious protector (both of itself, its resident birds and small mammal, and of more fragile forest plants), the hawthorn has a long association with cemeteries. Pre-Christians believed, for instance, that the hawthorn lifted spirits, banished melancholy, and provided a meeting place for spirits and fairies. Later, the Christian church dedicated this sacred tree to the Virgin Mary and claimed that its thorns were the thorns in Christ\u2019s crown. These same thorns were said to have pierced a bird\u2019s breast staining it red and, lo, the robin \u2013 a common bird in the Mount Royal Cemetery \u2013 was born!<\/p>\n

For more on the hawthorn, ginkgo, dawn redwood, tulip tree, and one enormous elm, come to this Sunday\u2019s (in English) or next Sunday\u2019s (in French) walk.<\/p>\n

For details, call 514-279-7358 or see aws@mountroyalcem.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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From its beginnings in 1852 as Canada\u2019s first \u2018rural\u2019 cemetery \u2013 along the lines of Europe\u2019s first \u2018rural\u2019 cemetery, P\u00e8re Lachaise (1804) and Mount AuburnContinue reading “Tree Tuesday: Hawthorns and other cemetery favourites”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7835],"tags":[4077,782,283,4076,4075,497,4074,4073,377,4070,3118,4072,4071,108],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","tag-514-279-7358","tag-cambridge","tag-canada","tag-christian-church","tag-communications-coordinator","tag-europe","tag-mass","tag-massachusetts","tag-mcgill-university","tag-mount-auburn-cemetery","tag-mount-royal-cemetery","tag-myriam-cloutier","tag-the-mount-royal-cemetery","tag-tree-tuesday"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTree Tuesday: Hawthorns and other cemetery favourites - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/06\/04\/tree-tuesday-hawthorns-and-other-cemetery-favourites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tree Tuesday: Hawthorns and other cemetery favourites - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sunday tree walk: Trees of Mount Royal Cemetery, no charge, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., to reserve: 514-279-7358 or aws@mountroyalcem.com The Mount Royal Cemetery is a treasure trove of trees. 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